Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love"

Chris Burke, Actor

"Different parents have different standards for their children"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports"

Mahesh Bhupathi

"If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals"

Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity

"I love all my children, but some of them I don't like"

Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity

"I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"In fact, I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me, and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age, and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use, and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me, I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"I'm just passionately in love with my kids"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired, so you do all those things"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor, you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"How I was raised is what I am today"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I care about the children of Detroit"

John Engler, Politician

"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it"

Dianne Wiest, Actress

"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself"

Al Lewis, Actor

"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents"

Tina Louise, Actress

"Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren"

Mary Calderone, Scientist

"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Writer

"One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here"

Heather Locklear, Actress

"Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child"

Sylvia Pankhurst, Activist

"We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines"

Robert A. Brady, Politician

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father, consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

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